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Selfies have been around for quite some time now (don’t try to pretend you forgot about those embarrassing MySpace mirror pictures,) but lately the phenomenon has skyrocketed in popularity — with the invention of the frontfacing camera, how could it not? Selfies have become such a prevalent part of today’s culture that the term has even been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
contained a large amount of well-known and mind-blowingly attractive celebrities). In spite of the spike in the popularity of selfies, they get a pretty bad rap for embodying all that is vain and superficial.
In 2014, electronic group The Chainsmokers released “#Selfie,” a song that follows a night through the eyes of an intoxicated young woman in some sort of a club setting as During this year’s Oscars, comedian and host she shares her self-absorbed thoughts. At Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie with a gaggle of one point the narrator rambles about a justA-list celebrities and the picture was so popular snapped selfie, saying, “Can you guys help me that it became the most retweeted tweet on pick a filter? I don’t know if I should go with Twitter — the fact that so many people cared XX Pro or Valencia. I wanna look tan.” This, about a selfie really speaks volumes about the unfortunately, is a relatively common outlook pervasiveness of the selfie in today’s society about the purpose of selfies and the intentions (though it probably didn’t hurt that the selfie of those who take them frequently. SCAN MAGAZINE // FALL 2014